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re⋅cent

   [ree-suhnt]
–adjective
1. of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
2. not long past: in recent years.
3. of or belonging to a time not long past.
4. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the present epoch, originating at the end of the glacial period, about 10,000 years ago, and forming the latter half of the Quaternary Period; Holocene.
–noun
5. Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
Origin:
1525–35; < L recent- (s. of recēns) fresh, new
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re·cent     (rē'sənt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
  2. Modern; new.
  3. Recent Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

[Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.]
re'cen·cy, re'cent·ness n., re'cent·ly adv.
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recently

adverb
in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" 

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Recently

Re"cent*ly\, adv. Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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